Pedro de Torres Rámila (Latin: ''Petro de Torres Ramilae'') (1583—1658) was a Spanish poet, satirist and Renaissance humanist. Rámila was born in Vilarcayo,

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. He was professor of humanities at the ''Colegio Trilingüe'' (Trilingual College), and in the Greater College of San Ildefonso, in

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. He was also canon of the Complutensian church of SS. Justo and Pastor. He died in

. In 1616 he submitted four poems to a contest of the chapel of the Sagrario in

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. The poems are lost, and are thought to have been of little literary merit. He signed them with the pseudonyms ''Trepus Ruitanus Lamira'' and ''Juan Pablo Ricci''. He owes his fame to the diatribes from an Aristotelian perspective against, principally,

Lope de Vega Félix Lope de Vega y Carpio (; 25 November 156227 August 1635) was a Spanish playwright, poet, and novelist who was a key figure in the Spanish Golden Age (1492–1659) of Spanish Baroque literature, Baroque literature. In the literature of ...

, but also against Luis Tribaldos de Tolello, Padre Juan Luis de la Cerda and

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. He is especially remembered for the Latin satire ''Spongia'' (Paris, 1617), written probably in collaboration with

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. The original work has been lost, due to its destruction by the enemies of Torres, but it was reconstructed by

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in his ''Una guerra literaria del Siglo de Oro: Lope de Vega y los preceptistas aristotélicos'', Madrid, 1932. It contained personal attacks on Lope, as well as attacks on his dramatic theory and practice as defying Aristotelian norms. Writer

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, a friend of Lope de Vega, wrote ''Expostulatio Spongiae'' (1618) in rebuttal. Torres Rámila served

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as the model of the character of the teacher in his ''El pasajero''.

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in the Spanish Wikipedia, accessed March 17, 2007. {{DEFAULTSORT:Torres Ramila, Pedro de 1583 births 1658 deaths 17th-century writers in Latin Spanish Renaissance humanists 17th-century Spanish male writers 17th-century Spanish poets